Breaking News: GNU/Hurd 1.0 Released!
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thu, 06/08/2006 - 10:12.
In what some are calling the most shocking development since the invention of fire, Richard M. Stallman today unveiled the first official release of the GNU Project's operating system kernel, GNU/Hurd 1.0.0.
How was GNU able to produce the new operating system so quickly? Simple. They used GNU Emacs as the base.
"We were going to develop our own microkernal-based system from scratch," RMS explained. "Based on development trends, however, we calculated that such a project wouldn't be completed until 2014, or roughly two years after the projected release date of Windows Vista. So we decided to switch gears and do something we should have done a long time ago: build our operating system on top of Emacs."
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Seriously, it should have
Seriously, it should have said 'joke' in title!
Emacs, basic and Posix; not fake news but old hat QNX ?
If only fake news of RTOS is laughable?
But QNX did it on their 1.44 mb demo floppy in 1998.
Posix microkernels booted on a floppy, installed keyboard, mouse, xvesa, neutrino window manager on monitor; add external serial modem and html browser. I still use it on my ISP account, but aged html browser is limited in internet capability, today.
Prex 0.4 is active and can dial cellphone and call out URL address to log on to website.
Better Emacs than vi...
... else they would have ended up with Windows 3.1. >.<